A Software Library with No Code
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Do we still need libraries of 3rd party code when AI agents are this good?
Jan 8, 2026 OSS AI SPECS A Software Library with No Code All You Need is Specs? Today I’m releasing whenwords , a relative time formatting library that contains no code . whenwords provides five functions that convert between timestamps and human-readable strings, like turning a UNIX timestamp into “3 hours ago”. There are many libraries that perform similar functions. But none of them are language agnostic. whenwords supports Ruby, Python, Rust, Elixir, Swift, PHP, and Bash. I’m sure it works in other languages, too. Those are just the languages I’ve tried and tested . (I even implemented it
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